Short?term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of … paper estimates the effects of short?term training programs in West Germany starting in the time period 1980 to 1992 and … 2000 to 2003 regarding the two outcomes employment and participation in longer training programs. We find that short …

Arbeitsmarktentwicklung und die Arbeitsmarktprobleme in Deutschland. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt eine Analyse und Bewertung der Reform von …

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the … endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment … training on the employment probability of the treated, lying between 12 and 21 percentage points ten quarters after program …

Das immer drängender werdende Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland macht eine intensive Diskussion über Ursachen …

job entry. We use an exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to estimate their employment and earnings … empirical strategy such as conditioning flexibly on employment and benefit histories, the availability of rich personal … employment and earnings when job-seekers enroll after having been unemployed for some time. We find that data and specification …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be … into the comparison, the unformly superior employment performance of a decentralized wage bargaining system is questioned … bargaining takes account of the long-run employment consequences of wage setting. …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …